An important step before you begin the implementation of microservices is to choose the Kubernetes cluster for development. In this article, I’m going to describe several available solutions. You can…
Development on Kubernetes: Choose a platform
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Java, Spring, Kotlin, microservices, Kubernetes, containers
Category: Containers
Development on Kubernetes with Okteto and Spring Boot
Okteto Platform seems to be an interesting alternative to the other more popular tools that simplify development on Kubernetes. In comparison to the tools like Skaffold or Draft, the idea…
Spring Boot Library for integration with Istio
In this article I'm going to present an annotation-based Spring Boot library for integration with Istio. The Spring Boot Istio library provides auto-configuration, so you don't have to do anything…
Simplify development on Kubernetes with Dekorate, Skaffold and Spring Boot
Although Kubernetes is a great solution for managing containerized applications, scaling, and automating deployment, a local development on it may be a painful experience. A typical workflow includes several steps…
Circuit breaker and retries on Kubernetes with Istio and Spring Boot
An ability to handle communication failures in an inter-service communication is an absolute necessity for every single service mesh framework. It includes handling of timeouts and HTTP error codes. In…
Service mesh on Kubernetes with Istio and Spring Boot
Istio is currently the leading solution for building service mesh on Kubernetes. Thanks to Istio you can take control of a communication process between microservices. It also lets you secure…
Running Kotlin Microservice on Google Kubernetes Engine
In this article I’ll guide you through the steps required for building and running simple Kotlin microservice on Google Kubernetes Engine. We will use such and framework like Spring Boot,…
Kubernetes ConfigMap Versioning for Spring Boot Apps
Kubernetes doesn’t provide built-in support for ConfigMap or Secret versioning. Sometimes such a feature may be useful, when we are deciding to rollback a current version of our application. In…
Using Spring Cloud Kubernetes External Library
In this article I'm going to introduce my newest library for registering Spring Boot applications running outside the Kubernetes cluster. The motivation for creating this library has already been described…
Best Practices For Microservices on Kubernetes
There are several best practices for building microservices architecture properly. You may find many articles about it online. One of them is my previous article Spring Boot Best Practices For…
New Book Published
My latest book Hands-On Java with Kubernetes is now available on Leanpub!
